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China's maternal mortality rate continued to decline

      Recently, the National Health and Family Planning Commission held in Beijing in 2017 the National Maternal and Child Health Working Conference. Ma Xiaowei, deputy director of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, introduced that the national maternal mortality rate dropped to 19.9 / 100 thousand in 2016 and the infant mortality rate and the mortality rate of children under 5 years of age dropped to 7.5 ‰ and 10.2 ‰, respectively, preventing maternal deaths The rate of rebound, a strong guarantee of maternal and child safety.
      Ma Xiaowei said the implementation of a comprehensive two-child policy, the cumulative release of fertility needs concentrated, high-risk increase in the proportion of pregnant women. Women and children's health problems are still prominent, the demand for health care services diversification and differentiation. The total resources of maternal and child health service is not enough and the distribution is not balanced. "Health China 2030" Plan "proposed to achieve the end of life from the fetus to the full range of health services and health protection for the development of maternal and child health work pointed out the direction.

      Ma Xiaowei pointed out that in 2017 and the next period of time, to comprehensively strengthen the maternal and child health service system, enhance service capabilities, optimize the entire basic health care services. New obstetric beds 89000, and strive to in the "thirteen five" pre-maternal and child health services to solve the overall shortage of resources and structural shortage of supply and demand. To enhance the capacity of maternal and child services to speed up the obstetricians, midwives, personnel training, and strive to "thirteen five" period increased obstetrician and midwife 140,000, to build a solid foundation of clinical medicine, public health perspective compound talents. To rely on the birth of pediatric strength, comprehensive treatment capacity of strong medical institutions to speed up the improvement of the critical area of maternal and neonatal treatment network. By the end of 2018, to be built grading responsible for the upper and lower linkage, should be orderly and efficient operation of maternal and neonatal emergency critical care, consultation, referral network. To establish and improve the working mechanism, improve the entire birth of the basic health care service chain, promote maternal and child health information construction, promote the use of maternal and child health manual. We should promote the implementation of the Healthy Children Program, strengthen the prevention and care of children's diseases, improve the children's essential medicines list and children's medical insurance and disease relief policies. Study and formulate a package of children's health services, focusing on poverty-stricken areas and the central and western regions, and gradually expand the coverage. Innovation and family planning technical services, highlighting the protection of reproductive health, promote eugenics education service attributes. Strengthen comprehensive prevention and treatment of birth defects, and strengthen maternal and child health service regulation.